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Hi Friends,

Are you in debt, struggling to make ends meet and fed up
with not having enough money?

Are you doing OK financially but want to do much better?

Are you doing well financially but the "price" you've been
paying for your success (stress, anxiety, health issues,
relationship strain, no time, disillusionment, etc.) is too
high?

Have you reached out for books, tapes, seminars or coaching
(including law of attaction stuff) specifically to improve
your finances, lifestyle and quality of life, but nothing
seems to work for you?

If you answered "Yes!" to any of the above questions, I have
some exciting news for you. Robert Scheinfeld just
created a new resource that has the power to radically
transform your relationship with money — in ways that have
never been possible before.

I'm not talking about investing, marketing, the Internet,
network marketing, business building, real estate,
stock trading or some new technique or strategy for
increasing your productivity or efficiency.

I'm talking about a revolutionary breakthrough. Something
you've never seen or heard before. I'm very excited about
this breakthrough that I had to reach out and tell you about it
right away.

http://www.thestorybehindthesecret.com/moneygame.htm

Let me explain …

For 12+ years, Robert Scheinfeld has been teaching people
how to tap unusual "sources of sources" to create success
and prosperity in their lives. You've probably heard of his
best-selling Invisible Path to Success and 11th Element
work. Maybe you already own one or more of his courses or
books.

Robert is very proud of his earlier work which has profoundly
touched the lives of tens of thousands of people in more
than 190 countries.

However, as he continued his own personal journey, he
discovered that while the Systems he developed and taught
made him infinitely better at playing what he calls "The
Money Game" — and enabled him to amass his own fortune
(then lose it and build it up again) — playing The Money
Game was still extremely stressful, his prosperity was still
"fragile" and  vulnerable to severe ups and downs

He noticed it wasn't just him either. The same thing was
true for virtually everyone, no matter how much money they
have.

That wasn't OK with him!

        Further Down "The Rabbit Hole" …

Robert ultimately realized there were additional pieces to the
wealth and prosperity puzzle he hadn't yet found. To use a
popular phrase from Alice In Wonderland and the movie "The
Matrix," he realized he could go even deeper down "the
rabbit hole."

What he discovered through his own experiences (of making
money, crashing and burning and "being rich"), and through
his relationships with hundreds of other extremely wealthy
people (including some of the wealthiest in the world), is
that The Money Game is a game you can't win  — if you play
according to the rules, regulations and structures you're
taught growing up.

Robert discovered it doesn't work to simply play The Money
Game better and pile up more and more money, which is what
most people want tio learn and all the experts teach. You've
got to actually bust loose from the old rules of The Money
Game entirely and start playing a new game with a new set of
rules that work for YOU.

Robert discovered how to do that, how to bust loose from The
Money Game and has been quietly showing others how to do it
for the last year and a half.

He taught this concept to Chris Attwood and many others, whose
lives have never been the same since - this is POWERFUL
STUFF!

Now he's prepared to show you how to do it too through a
brand new resource he just completed and released called …

"Busting Loose From The Money Game Home Transformational
System"

In that resource, he reveals his "Busting Loose Process"
and how to harness it to make money a total non-issue in
your life.

Once you bust loose, there's no more worrying about bills or
the balance in your checkbook. No more asking "Can I afford
that?" Or "Should I buy that?"

No more worrying about your assets and liabilities, personal
income, savings, debt, profits, retirement or taxes.

No more working your butt off to "make ends meet" or carve
out a little pleasure or luxury in your life. No more of the
complexity, worry and stress that come from trying to
intelligently manage, grow and protect whatever amount of
money you've been able to pile up.

In short …

        No limits or restrictions of any kind
               as it relates to money!

We're talking about major "outside the box" thinking and
living here. Sound unbelievable? I assure you, it's very
real and absolutely doable - if you know how, which Robert
can show you.

I don't care what you think you know about money, wealth,
prosperity and abundance, or how many books, tapes or
seminars you've experienced on those topics. Robert's System
is major renegade stuff and I guarantee you've never
experienced anything like it before.

            A Guided Tour Opens The Door
                   To The Secrets …

Robert has prepared a special multimedia Guided Tour of the
Busting Loose Process for you. To take that Guided Tour,
and I strongly urge you to take it, just click on the
following link:

http://www.thestorybehindthesecret.com/moneygame.htm

It will be well worth your time.

Angela

Have you ever secretly wanted to break the rules and make a lot of money? Ever wanted to hop on the other side of the fence knowing that it might be wrong to do, just to see how much money can be made? Well your curiosity can now be quenched with this new e-book I just read called, AdSense Black Hat edition. 

This e-book from a friend of mine, Vince Tan, is amazing. It gives you all the tools you need to run a full fledged black hat AdSense campaign without getting busted. Best of all its totally free!

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Stop working so hard!!!

I wanted to let you in on a little secret that I found that is going to make your online lifestyle 1000% times easier. It's the concept of outsourcing!

I'm going to show you WHY, HOW and exactly WHERE I find the best people to do all of the work for you!!!

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I joined Facebook a short while ago and was invited to join a group that was studying  the

psychology of Facebook!  I thought it was going to be interesting and useful and that turned out to be very true.

A representative of the BBC wrote an article, which I am sharing here.  I'll write something a little bit later

when I have time to focus on it.  Here is my Facebook profile:  You can be my friend there, if you wish:

http://profile.to/angelawickenberg/

My Twitter profile is twitter.com/EbizMom

which I update several times a day directly from my Facebook account.

Anyway, here's the article:

Students prepare to learn the secrets of Facebook

A group of students at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley have turned their attention towards a unique course that blends popular culture with the more time-worn principles of psychology.

The Psychology of Facebook is the brainchild of Professor B J Fogg, a pioneering persuasion psychologist who founded the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford.

He says: "When Facebook came along I was one of the developers at the launch and what struck me was how there was this new form of persuasion. This mass interpersonal persuasion."

Professor Fogg says the pivotal moment came when he watched an application on the site go from "literally zero to more than a million users in a week".

He recalls that it was to do with music sharing and buying tickets and that that was when he had his "oh my gosh moment". It was quickly followed by a light bulb moment.

"Where on earth could you get a million customers in a week? That was when I said 'I want to learn more about this' and I thought the best way was to teach a class and look at how persuasion happens."

Usual coterie

It's Thursday afternoon and the sun is splitting the sky above the adobe-coloured Cordura Hall, the venue for Professor Fogg's Psychology of Facebook course. Outside there's a rag tag collection of people dodging the searing heat.

Alongside the usual coterie of students is an older crowd known simply as "visitors". These people are an assortment of entrepreneurs, angel investors, business heads and myself the only journalist.

Facebook right now stands out from the crowd. Can they continue? Professor B Fogg, Standford University

As we wait for the technology to click into place that allows another 700 students to tune in online, Professor Fogg declares that his goal is to help everyone to become a world class expert on the psychology of Facebook.

But this is no one trick pony according to the Professor. "What we learn here isn't just relevant to Facebook. The psychology that drives Facebook relates to other online success stories, including those blockbusters yet to be invented."

"There is something enduring about what we are studying," he declares, "whereas if you are learning how to programme a Facebook application, that then could change in 30 days from now. In fact it probably will; so that knowledge breaks."

Dissects aspect

Each week the class dissects an aspect of Facebook and looks at the way it works, the psychology behind it and what impression users are trying to convey. The gamut runs from examining status updates to news feeds and from poking to writing comments.

Today the focus is on the use of profile pictures, the photograph on the front page of every Facebook entry.

The discussion is led by Psychology Senior Richard Barton, who maintains Facebook's high strike rate in this area has to do with the default picture it puts up if you don't post your own.

"Who wants a question mark in place of their face and what questions does that raise about you? Like, why are you on Facebook? And so basically Facebook sets up an environment where your friends do the persuading to get you to post a picture."

Professor Fogg contends this is at the heart of Facebook's achievements.

"What they're tapping into are some fundamental drivers and it makes it easy to satisfy those drives. Things like the need to be socially accepted and the flip side is to not be rejected."

Class experiment

The other strand to Professor Fogg's persuasion theory has to do with motivation and outcomes, questioning why users post a certain type of picture and why they constantly change them or not.

How does the Facebook 'question mark' persuade users?

To illustrate his point he conducts a class experiment asking people to write out how they want to be regarded based purely on their profile mugshot.

The findings are revealing:

"Fun, outgoing, nature loving."

"I was too lazy to rotate my picture and then I had the idea that if I left it you would think I was cool and good looking." "I'm hot."

"I want to remind my children that I was young once."

"Make people think about peace."

"Web 2.0 revolutionary and world traveller."

Professor Fogg says this random sample proves that behind even the innocent act of posting a profile picture, the psychology of persuasion in managing your image or the impression you give off is at play.

And he stresses that albeit unconsciously, Facebook's unbridled success lies in getting users to to do the work for them with friends persuading friends to post pictures, comments, or upload applications.

"I would say they were lucky and have been responsive to users but I don't think they are persuasion masterminds."

Straightforward tools

While luck might have played its part in turning Facebook into a major force in social networking, the entrepreneurs attending this course are looking for straightforward tools to help their businesses hit the jackpot.

Rob Ross has developed the Footsies application for Facebook and is working on others. For him the course is a portal into how he can make his business more relevant.

He says: "This opens a door that has not been opened before. This is going to change the game."

Student Roman David agrees: "It's beyond dollars and cents. That is part of it but its also where the opportunities are for entrepreneurs and about how the world is changing."

Professor Fogg says while his class is about trying to understand what makes Facebook tick, the people behind the site have a similar task to ensure it remains a dominant player.

"Facebook right now stands out from the crowd. Can they continue? So far with its fifty million plus users they're doing a pretty good job."

In that spirit, Business 2.0 magazine sent senior writer Paul Kaihla and a team of reporters on a quest to find some of the best "best practices" in business today. The companies they interviewed have stumbled upon their own unique methods for doing everything from running meetings and generating product ideas to troubleshooting M&A deals and keeping board directors on their toes.

Following are 25 ideas that are truly gems, broken down into five categories: finance, HR, management, marketing, and R&D.

They're methods that help keep some of the best-run companies, like Procter & Gamble (Research), Google (Research), Southwest Airlines (Research), Microsoft (Research), Intel (Research), and Coke (Research), at the top of their game. You've probably never heard of most of these practices — but you might want to start implementing them tomorrow. 

HEWLETT-PACKARD CEO Mark Hurd loves numbers–and insists that his managers learn to love them too. Since Hurd came onboard last March, one of the key tools he's used to keep pace with rivals is his extreme form of industry benchmarking. Instead of comparing HP's sales and profits with Dell's or IBM's, the company now tracks itself against rivals by every conceivable measure. "We want to make sure we break down every unit and business function," explains Marius Haas, senior strategy officer at HP, "so we can become best in class in each one."

Here's how it works: Imagine a matrix with various business units running down the side (printing, servers, storage, IT services, etc.) and business functions across the top (finance, HR, marketing, R&D, etc.). Now create benchmarks for each of the 72 resulting cells and you have a good idea of how Hurd is managing the $87 billion company. The benchmarks are the best guess of where HP's rivals are going to be in 2007, based on more than a dozen variables, from real estate cost per square foot to operating expenses as a percentage of gross margin.

Before Hurd took over, HP measured itself primarily against IBM, using one very blunt tool: costs as a percentage of revenues. That ignored IBM's higher gross margins and the fact that it has more gross profit to spread around. Hurd's new benchmarking method formed the basis of HP's reorganization effort announced last July, through which HP has promised to save $3 billion by 2008. Already there is key evidence of success: Operating expenses as a percentage of gross margin dropped 2 percent in 2005, helping to fatten profits by $385 million. — E.S.

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Since I recently participated in a contest but did not win, it feels important
to focus on what I succeeded in doing; what did I accomplish?
When I focused on why I did not win, I contracted a very bad case of the
post-competition blues… we all like to receive something of high value
from someone we admire or from an organization as a proof of how much
THEY value us. It's like proof of how much we are loved and recognized.
Funny how we, as humans, need that kind of confirmation from others to feel self-worth.

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